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Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN hardback 1. Finally, much of this book presents a challenge to democratic peace scholarship. Never- theless, John Oneal, one of the pioneers of democratic peace theory, encouraged me to come to Alabama and has always been gracious and supportive of my work. I can think of no better colleague or scientist. Three of the chapters are based on work that I have written with former students.
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I thank Marc Hutchison and Steve Miller for their willingness to allow me to build from our earlier work together. This book is much better for the comments made by those seminar participants. Much of the analyses used in this book rely on data that is publicly available. I have received funding for various aspects of this project. Fellowship money from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation allowed release from classes and also research assistance.
Finally, the Dean of Arts and Science at the University of Alabama gen- erously provided funds to host a conference related to this work. I thank Bob Olin for his support.
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Cambridge University Press have been incredibly helpful as well. My remaining acknowledgments are more personal.
First, I have always relied heavily on the advice and instruction of John Vasquez. He is an inspiration. As you will read in the pages that follow, his work has played a prominent role in my thinking about politics. More than that though, John has always been my vision of what a scholar should be — always thoughtful, always engaging, and always curious. He continues to be the perfect mentor.
Finally, I thank my wonderful family. Doug, Mary, Sam, and Audrey, each in their own and many ways, have made me the proudest and happiest father imaginable. I cannot believe how very lucky I am to be part of their lives. They remind me every day about what is truly important. For my wife, Julia, thank you is just not adequate. She has read just about every word of this manuscript, as well as those many words she made me cut.
I actually now write with one over-arching purpose: But of course that is just a small part of the thanks I need to give. I owe and love her so much, and I thank her for my happiness.
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This book is dedicated to her. Both of these countries are also democracies, but our principal theory of international relations suggests that democracies do not fight each other. So, does this prove one of our best theories wrong?
Providing one contrary case does not invalidate a theory or law , of course. The empirical relationship is safe. However, I think the water cannon dispute is really useful for thinking about the dynamics of why democracies tend not to fight each other and what explains the larger relationship. If my argument is correct, the connection between territorial issues and state development controls the overall relationship: Disputes like the Senkaku Islands attract so much attention, in part, because they are so rare.
Japan, Taiwan, and China are each provoking the other states, in different ways, over the Senkaku Islands, and nationalism remains high among the populations involved.
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Nevertheless, no one expects a war here since the issues are comparatively small right now the potential for oil and fishing rights. These islands are not core territories for any of the states involved, even though they may eventually be exploitable. Curiously, few are mentioning the fact that Japan and Taiwan are democracies as the prime reason the dispute will fail to escalate further beyond this provocation phase.
Based on observed behavior alone, democracy seems not to matter here. This is strange because one of our core understandings in International Relations is that democracies do not fight each other. We do not know exactly why this regularity occurs though, as there are a host of sometimes competing reasons for the relationship—democracies and their leaders may be electorally constrained from conflicts against democracies here and here , their trade interests and IgO memberships may tie them together peacefully here and here , democratic systems may better inform their rivals of their intentions here and here , or it could be the fact that democracies and their citizens just have better ways of working things out in mutually acceptable ways here.
My argument in The Territorial Peace takes a different tack: Recall that I argued in my last post that territorial disputes tend to cause centralization in the state if threats persist. This is why we find unstable borders and centralized, non-democratic governments clustering together over time. This also implies that we will find decentralized states in areas with settled borders; among these decentralized states is where we find the democracies of the world.